I’m a little slow, so I just now caught the piece in the Inside Higher Ed on the Syracuse Professor who walked out of class when a student in the front row of his lecture blatantly texted from her cell phone. The story is complicated, so just go check it out, and the debate that [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
The Medium is the Txt Msg
30-May-08Summer School
28-May-08Tonight, taught the first meeting of my summer class, Intro to Soc, Monday and Wednesday nights. I think it went well enough, except for the part where I broke the projector screen, so it wouldn’t retract and was covering up two-thirds of the chalkboard. I also think some of the students have found this blog, [...]
Blogging, from a bus!
16-May-08I’m blogging, but I’m on a bus! There’s this new busline called Boltbus that goes between NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, and D.C., and they have wireless and power plugs in the seats. Crazy! Though I have some idea this means I will get work done on this ride (on my way to Boston), when has internet [...]
339 days left…
12-May-08…until the next National Librarian’s Day (April 16, 2009), but if you need a fix of your favorite Local Librarian before then, I’ve got a couple of options for you: (1) Emily has a piece in Radical Catologing, a new collection on the politics and possibilities of library practices, with articles addressing “the implications behind [...]
May Day
01-May-08Just got home from the May Day rally at Union Square. A nice turn-out, some good signs. Meanwhile, great post over at Scatterplot from yesterday, especially appropriate for today.